Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.

Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.

Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized.

When all that’s left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we’ll know what it means when the last human breath expires.

When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven't realized that today is tomorrow's nostalgia.

Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians.

No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over.

Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.

Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.

On the left hand path we take the direct route, which is much more strenuous, much more dangerous, and much more likely to cause you to fall.

Smartass Disciple: I've been searching for so long.I still can't find the truth.Master of Stupidity: Until you've lost and felt desperate, you won't be found.

The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.

So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

An opportunity fordoing an injury happens a hundred times a day, hut for doing good not once a year, " says Zoroaster.

Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.

Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

You’ve got to have a little more confidence in us than that. It’s insulting.